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[[folder:''Call of Nudity'']]
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/4115668 Call of Nudity]]'' is a series written by [=Skywalker689=] which follows Zavine, a tiefling druid who lives alone in the remote wilderness. Currently released stories include:
* ''1. To Burn the Forest'': After a mysterious cult invades her forest with plans to burn it down, Zavine begins an investigation to learn their motivations and how she can stop them.
* ''2. The Secrets of an Underground Cult'': After recovering from her previous adventure in a nearby inn, Zavine discovers the cult has infiltrated the town and is now gunning to remove her from the picture before she can further upset their plans.
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* EagleEyeDetection: One of Serris' defining character traits. Thanks to his private investigator background, he regularly spots discrepencies in seemingly-innocuous scenes or makes large deductions about people from seemingly little information.

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* EagleEyeDetection: One of Serris' defining character traits. Thanks to his private investigator background, he regularly spots discrepencies discrepancies in seemingly-innocuous scenes or makes large deductions about people from seemingly little information.



* GuestStarPartyMember: Several stories include a character who joins Haara for just a single adventure. The two most straightforward examples are Walburt from ''The Lake of Fire'' and Fiora from ''The Witch's Sacrifice''.

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* GuestStarPartyMember: Several stories include a character who joins Haara for just a single adventure. The two most straightforward examples are Walburt from ''The Lake of Fire'' and Fire'', Fiora from ''The Witch's Sacrifice''.Sacrifice'', and Serris from ''Peril in the Frozen North''.
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* ExoticEquipment: Common with bestial or inhuman species. The primary time it affected the plot was in Fiora's origin story, where part of her dislike of her own people comes from male shifters having penile spines making sex a painful and unpleasant experience for her.

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* ExoticEquipment: Common with bestial or inhuman species. The primary time it affected the plot was in Fiora's origin story, where part of her dislike of her own people comes from male cat shifters having penile spines making sex a painful and unpleasant experience for her.her, much like actual male cats do.
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* DuelToTheDeath: In his backstory, Serris challenges Faelar to a non-lethal duel but gets framed and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. After Haara helps him establish his innocence (and discover Faelar was responsible, though without enough evidence to prove it in court), he re-issues his challenge, this time to the death. [[spoiler:He loses, but because of two scrolls, he gets better]].

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* DuelToTheDeath: In his backstory, Serris challenges Faelar to a non-lethal duel but gets framed and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. After Haara helps him establish his innocence (and discover Faelar was responsible, though without enough evidence to prove it in court), he re-issues his challenge, this time to the death. [[spoiler:He loses, but because of the two scrolls, scrolls mentioned in CrazyPrepared, he gets better]].
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* DuelToTheDeath: In his backstory, Serris challenges Faelar to a non-lethal duel but gets framed and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. After Haara helps him establish his innocence (and discover Faelar was responsible, though without enough evidence to prove it in court), he re-issues his challenge, this time to the death.

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* DuelToTheDeath: In his backstory, Serris challenges Faelar to a non-lethal duel but gets framed and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. After Haara helps him establish his innocence (and discover Faelar was responsible, though without enough evidence to prove it in court), he re-issues his challenge, this time to the death. [[spoiler:He loses, but because of two scrolls, he gets better]].



* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Serris of Tides' hemocraft allows him to identify the racial origin of blood samples by tasting them. He mentions regularly using it at crime scenes or while tracking a suspect, and he uses the ability on Haara to deduce that she has orc and elven heritage.

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* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Serris of Tides' hemocraft allows him to identify the racial origin of blood samples by tasting them. He mentions regularly using it at crime scenes or while tracking a suspect, and he uses the ability on Haara to deduce that she has orc orcish and elven heritage.heritage despite otherwise being human by all appearances.
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* ''11. Kidnapped From the Hot Springs.'' When Haara gets abducted along with several Genasi travelers and discovers their newborn baby is prophesized to grow up and win the Genasi War, she suddenly must juggle her conflicting moral obligations while also keeping herself alive.

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* ''11. Kidnapped From the Hot Springs.'' When Haara gets abducted along with several Genasi travelers and discovers their newborn baby is prophesized to grow up and win the Genasi War, she suddenly must juggle her conflicting moral obligations while also keeping protecting herself alive.from their barbarian captors.



* MarsNeedsWomen: Everything, male or female, seems to find Haara a desirable sex partner. So far she's been intimate with multiple demons, a dragon, a bullywug, a tentacle monster, a slime monster, a yuan-ti halfblood, a water elemental, a selkie, and most of the playable races.

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* MarsNeedsWomen: Everything, male or female, seems to find Haara a desirable sex partner. So far she's been intimate with multiple demons, a dragon, a bullywug, a tentacle monster, a slime monster, a yuan-ti halfblood, a water elemental, a selkie, a werecobra, and most of the playable races.
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* ''11. Kidnapped at the Hot Springs.'' When Haara gets abducted along with several Genasi travelers and discovers their newborn baby is prophesized to grow up and win the Genasi War, she suddenly must juggle her conflicting moral obligations while also keeping herself alive.

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* ''11. Kidnapped at From the Hot Springs.'' When Haara gets abducted along with several Genasi travelers and discovers their newborn baby is prophesized to grow up and win the Genasi War, she suddenly must juggle her conflicting moral obligations while also keeping herself alive.



* AcidPool: In ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', the khenra barbarians force Haara to jump into a highly-acidic pool to retrieve a gem they lost.

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* AcidPool: In ''Kidnapped at From the Hot Springs'', the khenra barbarians force Haara to jump into a highly-acidic pool to retrieve a gem they lost.



* AngstySurvivingTwin: Ni-bast, due to being directly responsible for her sister's death in war. Doesn't become fully clear until her appearance in ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', when she refuses to help Haara subvert a prophesy because of her belief that YouCantFightFate and doing so only leads to terrible consequences.

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* AngstySurvivingTwin: Ni-bast, due to being directly responsible for her sister's death in war. Doesn't become fully clear until her appearance in ''Kidnapped at From the Hot Springs'', when she refuses to help Haara subvert a prophesy because of her belief that YouCantFightFate and doing so only leads to terrible consequences.



* BirthmarkOfDestiny: In ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', the Genasi hail Alee as the future savior of the empire because they were born a Void Genasi, the first ever born outside the royal family.

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* BirthmarkOfDestiny: In ''Kidnapped at From the Hot Springs'', the Genasi hail Alee as the future savior of the empire because they were born a Void Genasi, the first ever born outside the royal family.



* TheChosenOne: The core conflict in ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'' is Haara discovering a Genasi newborn is [[TheProphecy prophesized]] to lead the empire to victory, and having to juggle her conflicting moral obligations to NeverHurtAnInnocent (a [[WouldntHurtAChild child]], no less) against her need to stop the prophesy being fulfilled.

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* TheChosenOne: The core conflict in ''Kidnapped at From the Hot Springs'' is Haara discovering a Genasi newborn is [[TheProphecy prophesized]] to lead the empire to victory, and having to juggle her conflicting moral obligations to NeverHurtAnInnocent (a [[WouldntHurtAChild child]], no less) against her need to stop the prophesy being fulfilled.



* TheFatalist: Ni-bast fulfills this role in ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', steadfastly insisting there's no way to subvert the prophesy in stark contrast to Haara's full disbelief in fate.

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* TheFatalist: Ni-bast fulfills this role in ''Kidnapped at From the Hot Springs'', steadfastly insisting there's no way to subvert the prophesy in stark contrast to Haara's full disbelief in fate.



* HeavySleeper: In ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', Alee the baby remains asleep through the entire story, even as the rest of the party fights monsters, gets into shouting matches, and in general everything gets progressively worse around them.

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* HeavySleeper: In ''Kidnapped at From the Hot Springs'', Alee the baby remains asleep through the entire story, even as the rest of the party fights monsters, gets into shouting matches, and in general everything gets progressively worse around them.



* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'' revolves entirely around this, after a pair of khenra barbarians abduct several people and discover that one of them is a newborn baby prophesized to bring victory to the Genasi Empire. Each character in the party holds a different opinion on matters of fate, destiny, and free will, and have different motivations coloring how they interact with (or attempt to harm) the child.

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* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: ''Kidnapped at From the Hot Springs'' revolves entirely around this, after a pair of khenra barbarians abduct several people and discover that one of them is a newborn baby prophesized to bring victory to the Genasi Empire. Each character in the party holds a different opinion on matters of fate, destiny, and free will, and have different motivations coloring how they interact with (or attempt to harm) the child.

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* ''11. Kidnapped at the Hot Springs.'' When Haara gets abducted along with several Genasi travelers and discovers their newborn baby is prophesized to grow up and win the Genasi War, she suddenly must juggle her conflicting moral obligations while also keeping herself alive.



* AcidPool: In ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', the khenra barbarians force Haara to jump into a highly-acidic pool to retrieve a gem they lost.



* AmbiguousGender: Alee, the genasi newborn prophesized to bring victory to the empire, never has their gender revealed and in every scene is just a sleeping baby bundled in a blanket.



* AngstySurvivingTwin: Ni-bast, due to being directly responsible for her sister's death in war. Doesn't become fully clear until her appearance in ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', when she refuses to help Haara subvert a prophesy because of her belief that YouCantFightFate and doing so only leads to terrible consequences.



* BirthmarkOfDestiny: In ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', the Genasi hail Alee as the future savior of the empire because they were born a Void Genasi, the first ever born outside the royal family.



* TheChosenOne: The core conflict in ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'' is Haara discovering a Genasi newborn is [[TheProphecy prophesized]] to lead the empire to victory, and having to juggle her conflicting moral obligations to NeverHurtAnInnocent (a [[WouldntHurtAChild child]], no less) against her need to stop the prophesy being fulfilled.



* DangerousDeserter: In ''First Day at School'', when Spectra discovers Professor Goldgrass has been [[spoiler:harboring a rogue Genasi psionicist under her classroom]], she cites this stereotype as the reason she doesn't confide what she's doing to the university. Spectra herself has to grapple with her own fears about this once she finds out, only overcoming it by deciding she won't [[TheChainOfHarm perpetuate the cycle of distrust]] others had always levied against her.

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* DangerousDeserter: In ''First Day at School'', when Spectra discovers Professor Goldgrass has been [[spoiler:harboring a rogue Genasi psionicist under her classroom]], she the professor cites this stereotype as the reason she doesn't confide what she's doing to the university. Spectra herself has to grapple with her own fears about this once she finds out, only overcoming it by deciding she won't [[TheChainOfHarm perpetuate the cycle of distrust]] others had always levied against her.
* DeadlyEuphemism: When the other villagers learn of Faelar's extensive treachery, they unanimously vote to give him "the silent treatment," a punishment Haara considers shockingly lenient until she learns what the phrase means in their culture: [[spoiler:knocking the victim unconscious, cutting out their tongue, placing them in a public gallows, and waiting until they wake up and attempt to speak before dropping them to their death.]]


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* EatDirtCheap: Both Haara and Kay'la encounter Xorn who eat precious minerals and target the party's weapons in combat.


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* TheFatalist: Ni-bast fulfills this role in ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', steadfastly insisting there's no way to subvert the prophesy in stark contrast to Haara's full disbelief in fate.


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* HeavySleeper: In ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'', Alee the baby remains asleep through the entire story, even as the rest of the party fights monsters, gets into shouting matches, and in general everything gets progressively worse around them.


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* HollywoodTorches: When Kay'la enters the centuries-old Cenotaph of Alator, the narration mentions the wall torches are using the spell ''continual flame'' to remain lit after all this time.


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* LivingMacGuffin: The author calls this trope out in her notes when one story revolves around a baby prophesized to be TheChosenOne. Due to the risqué nature of the series, she assures readers the newborn will remain asleep in its bundle for the entire story, with the plot entirely focused on the various choices and motivations of the other characters because of the prophesy.


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* LowTechSpears: Played perfectly straight with Haara's weapon of choice, as a wilderness jungle warrior.


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* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: ''Kidnapped at the Hot Springs'' revolves entirely around this, after a pair of khenra barbarians abduct several people and discover that one of them is a newborn baby prophesized to bring victory to the Genasi Empire. Each character in the party holds a different opinion on matters of fate, destiny, and free will, and have different motivations coloring how they interact with (or attempt to harm) the child.


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* SnakesAreSinister: Subverted on two occasions. One of the slaves Haara rescues on the Isle of Slimes is a friendly yuan-ti pureblood, and Kay'la's familiar is a viper named Trowser who acts dopey and [[AllAnimalsareDogs doglike]].


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* TheSquire: Bren serves as Kay'la's squire, though he's comedically useless and never does anything to help, merely stands by snarking while she suffers AmusingInjuries from whatever ill-conceived situation she's gotten herself into.


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* TagTeamTwins: Ukhetsep and Rhataq are barbarian khenra twins who fight side-by-side at all times.

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* DreamEpisode: ''The Savage Savannah'' is framed as a dream which Haara experiences thanks to lingering aftereffects from the amnesid she and Fiora fought.



* FantasyContraception: Despite their frequent sex scenes, both protagonists have justifications for why they never get pregnant (or additionally in Spectra's case, impregnate others). Haara, despite being genetically human, has half-elf/half-orc parentage and completely subverts TrueBreedingHybrid. Spectra, meanwhile, has full control over her fertility (as either gender) thanks to being a changeling, and has mentioned her unwillingness to birth another changeling into the same prejudiced living situation she's had to endure in the human world. An unnamed background character also briefly mentions silphium existing as a commonplace medicinal contraceptive.

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* FantasyContraception: Despite their frequent sex scenes, both protagonists have justifications for why they never get pregnant (or additionally in Spectra's case, impregnate others). Haara, despite being genetically human, has half-elf/half-orc parentage and completely subverts TrueBreedingHybrid. Spectra, meanwhile, has full control over her fertility (as either gender) thanks to being a changeling, and but has mentioned her unwillingness to birth another changeling into the same prejudiced living situation she's had to endure in the human world. An unnamed background character Several characters have also briefly mentions mentioned silphium existing as a commonplace medicinal contraceptive.
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* CrossoverCouple: Kay'la sleeps with Spectra in one chapter of ''The Naked Misadventures of Kay'la.''

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* CrossoverCouple: Kay'la sleeps with Spectra in one chapter of ''The Naked Misadventures of Kay'la.''Kay'la''.



** Present as per the normal rules of ''D&D'', but largely averted for the protagonists. Haara only knows a few spells, none of which require material components, and Spectra and Kay’la both have spellcasting focuses that can take the place of any component without a listed price (i.e., almost all of them).

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** Present as per the normal rules of ''D&D'', but largely averted for the protagonists. Haara only knows a few spells, none of which require material components, and Spectra and Kay’la Kay'la both have spellcasting focuses that can take the place of any component without a listed price (i.e., almost all of them).



** Fiora has a toad familiar named Toadysseus, until she sacrifices it to escape Murkadoth’s tendrils which are designed to prioritize corpses.
** Kay’la eventually gains a snake familiar after briefly becoming a Magic-User while time traveling to the distant past.

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** Fiora has a toad familiar named Toadysseus, until she sacrifices it to escape Murkadoth’s Murkadoth's tendrils which are designed to prioritize corpses.
** Kay’la Kay'la eventually gains a snake familiar after briefly becoming a Magic-User while time traveling to the distant past.



* FantasyContraception: Despite their frequent sex scenes, both protagonists have justifications for why they never get pregnant (or additionally in Spectra’s case, impregnate others). Haara, despite being genetically human, has half-elf/half-orc parentage and completely subverts TrueBreedingHybrid. Spectra, meanwhile, has full control over her fertility (as either gender) thanks to being a changeling, and has mentioned her unwillingness to birth another changeling into the same prejudiced living situation she’s had to endure in the human world. An unnamed background character also briefly mentions silphium existing as a commonplace medicinal contraceptive.

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* FantasyContraception: Despite their frequent sex scenes, both protagonists have justifications for why they never get pregnant (or additionally in Spectra’s Spectra's case, impregnate others). Haara, despite being genetically human, has half-elf/half-orc parentage and completely subverts TrueBreedingHybrid. Spectra, meanwhile, has full control over her fertility (as either gender) thanks to being a changeling, and has mentioned her unwillingness to birth another changeling into the same prejudiced living situation she’s she's had to endure in the human world. An unnamed background character also briefly mentions silphium existing as a commonplace medicinal contraceptive.



** Father Pyrestein, a cleric whom Kay’la encounters in the snowy mountains, wields a flaming frying pan as his weapon of choice.

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** Father Pyrestein, a cleric whom Kay’la Kay'la encounters in the snowy mountains, wields a flaming frying pan as his weapon of choice.



* FunetikAksent: Used frequently for certain races. Dwarves sound Scottish, Yuan Ti and kobolds trill their ‘S’s, and at least one gnome spoke with all the ‘V’s and ‘Z’s of a pseudo-German accent.

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* FunetikAksent: Used frequently for certain races. Dwarves sound Scottish, Yuan Ti and kobolds trill their ‘S’s, "S"s, and at least one gnome spoke with all the ‘V’s "V"s and ‘Z’s "Z"s of a pseudo-German accent.



* IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt: Just to rub it in Fiora's face how much less-qualified Aeva is to become the new Sister (aka clan matriarch and magic-user) over her:
-->'''Current Sister:''' Keep it quiet for now, I’ll make an announcement after the Mating Ceremony, and then we can start on your first cantrip.
-->'''Aeva:''' Understood! I won't let you down, your holiness. Um, out of curiosity, what’s a cantrip?

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* IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt: Just to rub it in Fiora's face how much less-qualified Aeva is to become the new Sister (aka (a.k.a. clan matriarch and magic-user) over her:
-->'''Current Sister:''' Keep it quiet for now, I’ll I'll make an announcement after the Mating Ceremony, and then we can start on your first cantrip.
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Understood! I won't let you down, your holiness. Um, out of curiosity, what’s what's a cantrip?
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* IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt: Just to rub it in Fiora's face how much less-qualified Aeva is to become the new Sister (aka clan matriarch and magic-user) over her:
-->'''Current Sister:''' Keep it quiet for now, I’ll make an announcement after the Mating Ceremony, and then we can start on your first cantrip.
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* StarkNakedSorcery: When Fiora conducts the ritual to sacrifice Haara to the demon lord, she does so naked. (This proves to be a bad idea when she gets sucked into the demon realm along with her would-be victim).
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* BowsVersusCrossbows: Fiora’s home clan, the Shortfangs, are infamous for eschewing bows and choosing to hunt with primitive crossbows. The narration notes that the other clans all find this tradition absurd.

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* SssssnakeTalk: Bren, Kay'la's kobold squire, talks like this constantly.
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* BowsVersusCrossbows: Fiora’s home clan, the Shortfangs, are infamous for eschewing bows and choosing to hunt with primitive crossbows. The narration notes that the other clans all find this tradition absurd.

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* AccidentalPornomancer: Haara never actively seeks out sexual encounters, and would probably be a CelibateHero if the universe weren't constantly bending over backwards to drop her into erotic situations. On several occasions she expresses disbelief or annoyance at how often she seems to find herself having sex.



* ActionGirl: Haara's primary archetype, a bare-knuckled brawler who regularly gets into scrapes and comes out on top through a mix of brawn, guile, and improvisation.



* ArmorIsUseless: Haara's character sheet shows she's statted out so that her Armor Class would actually ''reduce'' if she were to put on armor.



* BareFistedMonk: Haara frequently must resort to this whenever her spear gets broken, confiscated, or lost.



* BlessedWithSuck: Inverted. Spectra's clothing-destroying necklace, which cannot be removed or suppressed by any (non-magical) means, is initially nothing more than a straight curse at the start of the story. However, after having sex with the fallen deva Hiyeth and becoming a Celestial Warlock, her necklace now has a heart-shaped pendant attached to it that allows her to cast magic, and doubles as a Periapt of Health. So while she still must contend with her necklace's nudity curse for the foreseeable future, with all of the downsides that it entails, she can now also use it as a means of protecting herself and potentially bettering her lot in life.



* CatGirl: While canonically a swiftstride shifter[[note]]D&D's equivalent of a werecat[[/note]], Fiora's character art is just a catgirl, and the narration casually and frequently refers to her as such.



* ClingyCostume: Spectra's necklace of nudity, like all cursed items, cannot be removed.



* CombatPragmatist: Haara constantly plays dirty, usually because she's fighting naked and unarmed and needs any conceivable advantage to even the odds. In one example, she agrees to a DuelToTheDeath using exotic polearms she's not proficient with...just so she can ignore the weapon she's holding and [[KickChick kick her opponent to death]].



* ConvenientColorChange: While never mentioned in text, the illustrations show that the crystal on Spectra's necklace will change color to visually match her new color scheme when she shapeshifts into a different form.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Spectra's parents were executed by the magistrate for a failed bank robbery on the same day she was born. Their assets were also bequeathed to a dead guard's widow, forcing their daughter to join the circus to make a living.
* CoolHorse: After rescuing the sphinx from the mithral mines, Kay'la learned how to summon Lugnut, a magical fey spirit in the guise of an aquatic kelpie-styled horse.



* {{Curse}}: Spectra didn't even do anything to deserve her nudity curse; the local magistrate forced the necklace on her after her parents were executed following a failed bank robbery, rationalizing that [[SinsOfTheFather she'd likely follow in their footsteps]] if given the chance to live normally with her changeling powers hidden.



* DayInTheLimelight: ''The Savage Savannah'' focuses entirely on Fiora, with Haara only appearing in the FramingDevice of witnessing it as a dream thanks to lingering aftereffects from the amnesid they fought together.



* DirtyCop: Kay'la almost immediately becomes one after being accepted as a royal knight of Axrilas. She spends months not doing anything but getting plastered in bars, running up massive tabs, and then claiming the alcohol she drank as 'civil forfeiture'.



* DoubleWeapon: After her dual swords get ruined by rust monsters, Kay’la forges a double-bladed scimitar that becomes her weapon of choice.



* EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit: Spectra suffers this to the extreme with her cursed necklace (once Hiyeth adds the purple crystal). It causes anything else she wears to burst into flames, meaning she has to walk around completely naked, but it grants her magical abilities, healing powers, and immunity to disease.



* EsotericMotifs: Fiora's demonic rituals contain objects of all four types (chalice, candle, pentacle, dagger). She even regularly calls her silver dagger an athame in conversation.



* ExtremeDoormat: Spectra at the beginning of her story. When she develops magical ability, she resolves to get better at not being this.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: While the series is filled with unconventional sex scenes, no character seems to seek them out quite like Fiora does. She's happily orchestrated situations that led to her (and Haara) having to sleep with a vine monster, water elemental, multiple demons, and even an ''abyssal T-Rex''.



* TheFairFolk: Spectra, like all changelings, is statistically a fey rather than a humanoid. This means she speaks sylvan and the list of spells/effects that affect her are completely different to most player characters. (Becomes a major plot point in ''Trapped Among Orcs'' when Hiyeth starts teleporting her to do his bidding using ''conjure fey'', which lacks a range limit or a saving throw and puts her completely at his mercy.)



* FellAsleepCrying: Spectra does it in her origin story, after one of her clients calls her a disgrace to her heritage for living openly among humans as a changeling, disregarding that she has little choice thanks to her curse. The narration suggests most of her nights end like this, due to how poorly her employer and the other townsfolk treat her.



* ForbiddenFruit: Spectra loves to make clothing, despite (or because) her curse leaves her unable to ever wear any of it, and she often sneaks out to her late parents' abandoned tailory to design fabulous dresses of every make and model.



* FriendToAllChildren: One of Haara's contacts is an orphanage matron who moonlights as a weapons distributor, and Haara always brings her orphans hand-carved wooden toys whenever she visits.



* FuryFueledFoolishness: Even Haara's internal monologue admits she was making a terrible decision when she attacked the wyrmling sorcerer with a mote of ''produce flame'' after he boasts about his plans to ally with the Genasi Empire.



* GuileHero: Due to her nudity, Haara is consistently at a material disadvantage to whoever she's fighting, and often must rely on her wits, keen sense of observation, or her opponent's behavioral weaknesses to defeat them. Common tactics involve her taunting or misdirecting them into making a mistake, or realizing something they don't about the environment/situation.



* HalfHumanHybrid: Played straight with the usual D&D races (half-elfs, half-orcs, tieflings, etc), but averted with Haara herself: the prequel story ''The Destitute Dancer'' reveals that her parents were a half-elf and half-orc. It's not even clear whether Haara knows this, as she's always referred to herself as (and her stats are for) a fullblood human.



* HealingHands: Haara specs into the Tranquility monastic tradition at level 3, letting her heal herself (or allies) with a mystical touch. Kay’la also gets this as a paladin.



* TheHermit: Haara lives alone in the wilderness whenever she's not WalkingTheEarth on a quest.



* HidingBehindYourBangs: Fiora's bangs cover up her right eye, symbolizing her mischievous and untrustworthy nature.



* HolographicDisguise: ''Disguise self'' is one of Haara's three spells, which she uses either to generate illusory clothes or disguise herself as another person or race.



* HotForPreacher: While still part of her clan, Fiora engaged in a lengthy affair with her tribe's matriarch despite such a thing being sacrilege on both their parts.
* HotWitch: Fiora from ''The Witch's Sacrifice'' is a mischievous and lecherous catgirl with a very open-minded attitude towards nudism and sexuality.



* {{Humanshifting}}: Spectra's core ability, and the source of most of her backstory troubles.



* IconicItem: Pretty much every good, bad, or character-defining event in Spectra's life can be traced back to her cursed necklace of nudity. It's why she works in the circus, why everyone knows she's a changeling, why she has crippling social anxiety, and (later) why she's able to cast magic spells.



* IdiotHair: While she didn't originally have one (due to the limitations of the author's modeling software), Fiora was later given this to represent her cheerful-yet-mischievous catlike personality.
* IdiotHero: The source of much of the humor in ''The Naked Misadventures of Kay'la.''



* ItRunsInTheFamily: ''The Savage Savannah'' originally seems to subvert this, with Fiora’s mother seeming far more straight-laced than her conniving rule-flaunting daughter. But then she casually offers to smuggle silphium to Fiora against the clan’s wishes, and at the end of the story she readily helps her daughter blackmail the clan’s matriarch, showing she can be just as unscrupulous even if she hides it better.
* ItemCrafting: Haara is a proficient woodworker, which she's used to craft spears, hatchets, and rafts as needed.



* JavelinThrower: Largely averted with Haara, though she does throw her spear in the first-ever scene (while hunting deer). Usually she relies on ''produce flame'' to deal ranged damage so she doesn't lose her only melee weapon.



* JunglePrincess: As a reclusive warrior monk who lives alone and naked in the wilderness, Haara showcases many elements of this archetype within her characterization. The other half of her background (an escaped slave from the Genasi Empire) averts some of the fridge logic usually present within this trope, like her [[NubileSavage well-groomed appearance]], cultured grasp of language, and lack of body hair.



* KnightErrant: Haara herself fits every bullet point on the list.



* LuminescentBlush: Spectra’s illustrations include this pretty much constantly, probably to highlight her shy personality and perpetual embarrassment at her state of undress.



* MagicalCounterfeiting: In ''The Witch's Sacrifice'', Fiora uses alchemy to turn wooden coins into silver.



* MartialMedic: As a Tranquility Monk, Haara has one of the highest raw healing outputs of any class in D&D despite her complete lack of medical training or healing spells.
* MartialPacifist: Haara calls herself this, but the stories are rather inconsistent on whether she's living up to the ideal, as she frequently starts fights and kills opponents if she has to. When she has the option, however, she'll often choose to deal nonlethal damage with her final hit to leave an enemy unconscious but alive.



* MorphicResonance: Very prevalent in any illustrations of Spectra shapeshifted. We've seen her as many different races and genders, but they're all still recognizably her thanks to her hairstyle, body/eye shape, LuminescentBlush, and meek/nervous personality being maintained.



* NaturalizedName: Fiora mentions changing from her clan name[[note]]“Lost Deer Among the Misty Pines”[[/note]] when she entered Mixed Lands society.



* NervousTics: Spectra tends to grab her necklace pendant whenever she's scared or anxious.



* NewcomerSavesTheDay: When Kay'la obtains a viper familiar named Trowser, she's originally disappointed and calls it "useless but cute" to its face. (And, to be fair, she's a level 7 paladin with a magic warhorse fighting incredibly deadly enemies on a daily basis.) Then, Trowser comes in clutch four different times while she fights her way through a harrowing dungeon[[note]]First his blindsight lets her survive an ankheg ambush in pitch blackness, then he substitutes himself for a ceremonial scepter to solve a door puzzle, then she uses his poison to coat her blades to defeat a monster immune to slashing damage, and finally he reminds her about the acorn so she can magically grow a tree and punch through the roof to escape the dungeon[[/note]], and by the end she's proclaiming it the greatest snake of all time and jokingly offering to make it her squire.



* NightmareFetishist: Fiora has a habit of casually describing hers and Haara's (hypothetical or potential) gruesome demises with a little too much detail.



* NubileSavage: Justified by Haara's background as an escaped Genasi slave, where she was well-fed and groomed for the entirety of her formative years.



* PermaShave: ''The Butcher's Basement'' reveals why Haara is like this; the Genasi loathe body hair since they naturally don't grow any, and so all Genasi slaves are forced to undergo multiple hair removal treatments upon reaching puberty until the effects are permanent.



* PowerCrystal: Spectra's warlock powers come from the gemstone on her necklace.



* PowerTattoo: Haara earns one in ''Peril in the Frozen North'', which renders her immune to cold damage (including frigid environmental temperatures.)



* SapientSteed: Kay'la's horse Lugnut is a fey spirit shapeshifted into the appearance of a kelpie, meaning it can understand Common and generally shows more sapience than a regular horse.



* ScreamingAtSquick: A running gag through Kay'la's arc in Axrilas is that she screams uncontrollably every time she sees Ayla, a palace wizard who's secretly a changeling, but thanks to her face-blindness her 'human disguise' has its facial features horribly misshapen and misplaced. Everybody else ignores it to respect her feelings, but poor Kay'la just can't help herself.



* TheShameless: Fiora the forest witch, in pretty much every way. A mischievous nudist [[LovableSexManiac sex pest]] who [[AffablyEvil cheerfully admits]] to being evil and always says exactly what's on her mind, she's quick to admit to countless skeletons in her closet from [[DealWithTheDevil selling her soul to a demon]] to [[GraveRobbing robbing battlefields for corpses to sell]]. Her complete lack of a filter keeps Haara from investigating her and realizing there's actually [[MyGreatestFailure one event from her past]] she doesn't want anyone to know about...



* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Spectra's usual form is a young woman entirely lacking any sort of pigmentation, giving her skin, hair, and eyes a ghostly-white look. Unlike most ''D&D'' changelings, she regularly walks around like this in public since everyone already knows she's a changeling, plus her cursed necklace makes impersonation largely impossible.



* SignatureMove: Kay'la has used ''thunderous smite'' in a truly staggering amount of different situations, barely any of them the intended use of the spell (dealing damage and knocking the victim 10 feet away). So far, she's:
** Used it on herself to send herself flying to safety after being restrained by a deadly foe.
** Used it on an ant (again, while restrained and essentially beaten) so that the thunderclap awakens and angers a nearby giant into attacking and blaming her opponent for the noise.
** Used it on herself to negate falling damage (by knocking herself 10 feet skyward milliseconds before she would have hit the ground at terminal velocity).
** Used the thunderclap to start an avalanche.
** Used it on a bug after pretending it startled her, to draw attention from (and mask the sound of) her horse kicking a hole through a nearby wall.
** Used it on herself mid-jump to gain an extra 10 feet of height and reach a ledge.
** And yes, occasionally she even uses it for the actual purpose of the spell (sending enemies flying into hazards or off cliffsides).



* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Fiora seems to have a bad habit of seducing authority figures. In her first story, she's sleeping with her university professor to become his academic assistant, and in her origin story she's sleeping with her clan's matriarch in the hopes of learning magic. In both cases, it blows up in her face and leads to even-worse decisions.



* SpellBook: Fiora's origin story was originally named "Diary of a Catgirl", after the childhood journal she repurposes into a spellbook after deciding to teach herself magic against the wishes of her clan.



* StoneWall: Whenever Haara decides to sacrifice dealing damage for survivability, she can become far more tanky than monks are usually able to by casting ''sanctuary'', taking the Dodge action every turn, and healing herself for any attacks that still manage to break through. (It helps that her build also maximizes AC.)



* SummonToHand: Fiora can do this with her spellcasting orb. In one flashback, the orb even rips itself clean from her suitcase on the other side of the room.



* SwissArmyAppendage: Thanks to her nudity curse, Spectra is sometimes forced to shapeshift her hand into common tools since she doesn't have pockets to carry anything around. So far she's turned her hand into a saw and a lockpick on different occasions.



* TokenEvilTeammate: Fiora, a graverobbing witch who tried to sacrifice Haara to demons...and who she's forced to team up with since she knows the ritual to escape from the abyssal realm.
* TomboyishPonytail: Haara has one, befitting her ActionGirl status. ''The Lake of Fire'' reveals that it doesn't use a hair tie, she loops it around itself to create the ponytail.
* TongueTrauma: Invoked by Haara whenever she uses ''disguise self'' to infiltrate a culture where she doesn't speak the language; she always severs the tongue from her illusory appearance, to justify her inability to answer if anyone attempts to talk to her.



* TrueBreedingHybrid: Averted; the author [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42502797/comments/604056996 has said]] that she thinks Haara's half-elf/half-orc parentage is the reason she never gets pregnant from all the sex she has.



* UtilityPartyMember: While normally monks don’t have the skill proficiencies to be this, Haara knows ''guidance'' as one of her three spells, which grants her an extra d4 on any ability or skillcheck she attempts, provided she’s in a situation where she can cast it.
* VibrantOrange: Fiora is the most mischievous, energetic, and cheerfully impulsive GuestStarPartyMember Haara ever teams up with, and this is reflected in her bright orange hair and eyes. (The black highlights suggest her [[TokenEvilTeammate questionable morality]] and ultimate untrustworthiness.)



* WebcomicTime: The series as a whole averts this due to taking place in a medieval fantasy setting, but ''The Naked Misadventures of Kay'la'' isn’t against lampshading its frequent [[ScheduleSlip schedule slips]]:
--> '''Kay’la:''' I know it’s only been five days since I started chasing that mithral plate, but it felt more like 5 months!



* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Haara has a very high Wisdom stat for someone in her early twenties, largely due to her monk training and growing up a slave in the extremely unforgiving Genasi Empire. ''The Butcher's Basement'' contains flashbacks to her childhood, with almost no change in her vocabulary, problem-solving skills, or ability to outthink those who pick fights with her.



* WreckedWeapon: Haara's wooden spear is often destroyed or lost at some point in each story. Often she doesn't have time to craft another, and is forced to [[KleptomaniacHero steal a dropped weapon]] or [[BareFistedMonk fight bare-handed]] for the rest of the current adventure.



* YouthfulFreckles: Haara has them according to her [=HeroForge=] minifigure, probably to highlight her active lifestyle spent almost entirely outdoors.
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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent:
** Haara learns of her half-elf mother and half-orc father in one story, then visits the orc tribe where they lived and learns her mother’s backstory from the tribe leader, even visiting her gravestone, and at no point does her father ever appear or get brought up.
** Fiora’s origin story shows her growing up with her mother in a remote village, and her father is never acknowledged. The narration even mentions that she relies on her mother’s job as a courier to get the house to herself so she can secretly learn magic, indicating he’s presumably not living with them anymore.


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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The three girls who headline their own stories are incredibly different in personality, combat style, and personal morals.
** Haara is a stoic BareFistedMonk who's cool under pressure and actively seeks out adventure in the name of helping the downtrodden and combating the empire that once enslaved her. She knows a small bit of magic, but is essentially a melee fighter specializing in physical fitness and strategic adaptability thanks to her high Wisdom stat.
** Spectra is a shy, overly-timid wallflower with crippling self-esteem issues who would happily live a normal life if circumstances outside her control didn't constantly force her into terrifying dangerous situations. Like Haara she resorts to extreme means to keep herself alive, but often feels terrible about it and struggles to see herself as a good person while second-guessing the desperate choices she makes to survive. As a changeling warlock, she's also far more oriented towards social manipulation and an [[MagicKnight equal blend of magic and melee]] combat proficiency.
** Finally, Fiora from ''The Savage Savannah'' is a cheerfully-mischievous NeutralEvil witch who relishes in lying, manipulating, and backstabbing anyone she wants to achieve her ends. Unlike the other two, she has no martial capabilities whatsoever and must rely exclusively on magic to defend herself, and tends to find herself in rapidly-worsening situations of her own making thanks to her selfishness and habitual scheming.


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* {{Courier}}: Fiora grew up in a primitive village where her mother serves as the “runner,” aka the one who delivers messages on foot to other clans in the savannah. Her frequent extended absences are what allowed Fiora to teach herself magic in secret.


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* HidingBehindYourBangs: Fiora's bangs cover up her right eye, symbolizing her mischievous and untrustworthy nature.


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* ItRunsInTheFamily: ''The Savage Savannah'' originally seems to subvert this, with Fiora’s mother seeming far more straight-laced than her conniving rule-flaunting daughter. But then she casually offers to smuggle silphium to Fiora against the clan’s wishes, and at the end of the story she readily helps her daughter blackmail the clan’s matriarch, showing she can be just as unscrupulous even if she hides it better.


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* RagingStiffie: When Fiora visits and wakes Gren in the middle of the night, he has morning wood which he quickly covers up. Fiora ignores it since she's too focused on manipulating him into agreeing to her plan.


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* RevengePornBlackmail: In ''The Savage Savannah'', after Fiora's schemes blow up in her face and she's standing trial for her crimes (with the village elders openly indicating they're going to vote for her execution) she asks only for a private moment with the clan's matriarch...whereupon she reveals that she used ''encode thoughts'' to create a memory of their illicit tryst, and her mother will be delivering it to every clan in the region if the matriarch doesn't get her off. Since matriarchs are forbidden from forming sexual attachments, the blackmail works and she gets her sentence commuted down to exile.


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* TheShameless: Fiora the forest witch, in pretty much every way. A mischievous nudist [[LovableSexManiac sex pest]] who [[AffablyEvil cheerfully admits]] to being evil and always says exactly what's on her mind, she's quick to admit to countless skeletons in her closet from [[DealWithTheDevil selling her soul to a demon]] to [[GraveRobbing robbing battlefields for corpses to sell]]. Her complete lack of a filter keeps Haara from investigating her and realizing there's actually [[MyGreatestFailure one event from her past]] she doesn't want anyone to know about...


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* WasItReallyWorthIt: Fiora's origin story chronicles the web of sex, politics, and blackmail she orchestrated to learn magic despite the wishes of her clan, ending in everything blowing up in her face and getting her exiled (narrowly escaping execution with one final underhanded gambit.) As she's being escorted from her home village, the matriarch's final barrage of snippy comments is a mixture of this and "[[AndThenWhat Now What?]]", since Fiora may be free to practice magic now, but she's almost certainly going to die in the wilderness without anyone to help her survive.

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* ''10. Diary of a Catgirl.'' A [[DayInTheLimelight Day In The Limelight]]/[[OriginsEpisode Origins Episode]] for Fiora[[note]]from ''The Witch's Sacrifice''[[/note]], detailing the circumstances that led to her leaving her native clan in the barrens to become a magician.

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* ''10. Diary of a Catgirl.The Savage Savannah.'' A [[DayInTheLimelight Day In The Limelight]]/[[OriginsEpisode Origins Episode]] for Fiora[[note]]from ''The Witch's Sacrifice''[[/note]], detailing the circumstances that led to her leaving her native clan in the barrens to become a magician.



* AnimalStampede: One of these occurs when the gnolls frighten off the herd of axebeaks. Fiora ends up having to ride one of them to escape the gnolls with her life.



* TheBait: In ''The Savage Savannah'', Fiora baits a band of gnolls into chasing her so she can lure them into axebeak territory.



* ContraceptionDeception: In ''Diary of a Catgirl'', Fiora's mother offers to smuggle her some silphium to sabotage the mating ceremony she's about to unhappily participate in for their clan.

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* ContraceptionDeception: In ''Diary of a Catgirl'', ''The Savage Savannah'', Fiora's mother offers to smuggle her some silphium to sabotage the mating ceremony she's about to unhappily participate in for their clan.



* DayInTheLimelight: ''Diary of a Catgirl'' focuses entirely on Fiora, with Haara only appearing in the FramingDevice of witnessing it as a dream thanks to lingering aftereffects from the amnesid they fought together.

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* DayInTheLimelight: ''Diary of a Catgirl'' ''The Savage Savannah'' focuses entirely on Fiora, with Haara only appearing in the FramingDevice of witnessing it as a dream thanks to lingering aftereffects from the amnesid they fought together.



* FeatheredFiend: The axebeaks in Fiora's home savannah are large flightless birds who lash out violently against anything they encounter. Every time she encounters them, at least one person gets mauled or killed.



* GossipyHens: Aeva, one of the girls in Fiora's home village, is a shameless gossip queen. At first Fiora completely ignores her, but she later becomes a key player in Fiora's schemes when the latter discovers (to her astonishment) that Aeva's secretly been chosen to succeed the Sister as clan matriarch.



* HadToBeSharp: All three protagonists had difficult upbringings (Haara as an imperial slave, Spectra as a homeless orphan-turned-prostitute), but the most straightforward example is Fiora, who grew up in a primitive village in the Ocher Barrens, a harsh savannah where resources were scarce and most of the wildlife wanted to kill you. Her origin story makes it clear her harsh formative years played a large part in her becoming a NeutralEvil OpportunisticBastard.



* HeinousHyena: One of the major antagonists in Fiora's backstory is a warband of gnolls who are portrayed as violent cackling ferals operating on pure murderous instinct and disrupting the local ecosystem with their insatiable overhunting.



* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: In ''Diary of a Catgirl'', Fiora witnesses a hunting party prepare an ambush for a pack of sleeping axebeaks, only for an unseen axebeak sentry to jump onto the hunting leader from above and tear him to ribbons before he could react.

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* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: In ''Diary of a Catgirl'', ''The Savage Savannah'', Fiora witnesses a hunting party prepare an ambush for a pack of sleeping axebeaks, only for an unseen axebeak sentry to jump onto the hunting leader from above and tear him to ribbons before he could react.



* LetsYouAndHimFight: Fiora's plan to deal with the gnoll warband is to play TheBait and lure them into axebeak territory, where she hopes the axebeaks will defeat them in straight combat. Unfortunately, she bets on the wrong side...



* LousyLoversAreLosers: In ''Diary of a Catgirl'', Fiora's internal monologue mentions G'ren was a particularly disappointing lover the time they had a fling. During the story, he fails in his duties as a lookout, abandons the other hunters to die during an axebeak ambush, gets tried for cowardice, attempts to pass the blame onto her just for being there, and ends up getting exiled from the clan in disgrace.

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* LousyLoversAreLosers: In ''Diary of a Catgirl'', ''The Savage Savannah'', Fiora's internal monologue mentions G'ren was a particularly disappointing lover the time they had a fling. During the story, he fails in his duties as a lookout, abandons the other hunters to die during an axebeak ambush, gets tried for cowardice, attempts to pass the blame onto her just for being there, and ends up getting exiled from the clan in disgrace.



* MoodyMount: When Fiora escapes the gnolls by leaping on the back of a wild axebeak, it's understandably peeved with the situation and tries to buck her off any way it can for the rest of the chase scene.



* OutgrowingTheChildishName: This is a naming convention of the shifter clan Fiora grew up with. Young males have a 'G' prefixed to their name (like G'leye or G'ren), and they shed the prefix after completing their coming-of-age ritual. Notably, when G'ren ''fails'' his and is exiled for cowardice, the apostrophe is dropped and the 'G' is permanently welded to his name (becoming Gren) to signify his irreversible failure.



* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: Barely averted; in ''Diary of a Catgirl'', Fiora's mom walks in seconds after her daughter breaks up with her boyfriend and kicks him out of the house post-coitus. She still quickly realizes what happened. (Also they live in a nudist clan and she's well aware Fiora's sampling boys to prepare for the upcoming mating ceremony, so there likely wouldn't have been much awkwardness anyway.)

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* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: Barely averted; in ''Diary of a Catgirl'', ''The Savage Savannah'', Fiora's mom walks in seconds after her daughter breaks up with her boyfriend and kicks him out of the house post-coitus. She still quickly realizes what happened. (Also they live in a nudist clan and she's well aware Fiora's sampling boys to prepare for the upcoming mating ceremony, so there likely wouldn't have been much awkwardness anyway.)



* {{Pheromones}}: When cornered in a cave by four murderous gnolls, Fiora magically conjures the scent of their sex pheromones to confuse them into seeing her as a mate instead of a meal.



* SexForSolace: After Fiora and Gren barely survive a wild goat ambush, Gren starts freaking out and trying to abandon their mission. Fiora stops him by giving him a blowjob to calm him down and give her time to think of further ways to manipulate him to keep going.



* SignificantNameShift: Fiora subtly takes advantage of this trope when trying to convince Gren to join her in a risky gambit against the gnoll warband threatening their tribe. The 'G' in Gren's name was originally a prefix signifying his youth, he would have ritually shed it had he not horrifically botched his coming-of-age attempt and gotten exiled from the clan. By calling him 'Ren' during her persuasions, she reminds him of the adult name he could have had, manipulating him to take this chance to regain his honor in the eyes of their clan.



* SpellBook: Fiora's origin story, "Diary of a Catgirl", is named after the childhood journal she repurposes into a spellbook after deciding to teach herself magic against the wishes of her clan.

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* SpellBook: Fiora's origin story, story was originally named "Diary of a Catgirl", is named after the childhood journal she repurposes into a spellbook after deciding to teach herself magic against the wishes of her clan.
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* ContraceptionDeception: In ''Diary of a Catgirl'', Fiora's mother offers to smuggle her some silphium to sabotage the mating ceremony she's about to unhappily participate in for their clan.


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* ExtremeOmnisexual: While the series is filled with unconventional sex scenes, no character seems to seek them out quite like Fiora does. She's happily orchestrated situations that led to her (and Haara) having to sleep with a vine monster, water elemental, multiple demons, and even an ''abyssal T-Rex''.


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* FlashbackBPlot: Haara has already escaped her bondage by the time the series starts, but many stories contain extended flashbacks to her time as a slave, often with their own storyline which is both standalone and related to her present adventure.


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* GladToBeAliveSex: Happens between Fiora and Haara (and a water elemental, it's a long story) after they barely escape the demon realm.


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* IdiotHair: While she didn't originally have one (due to the limitations of the author's modeling software), Fiora was later given this to represent her cheerful-yet-mischievous catlike personality.


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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Fiora's origin story revolves around two plots that are both sexually stressing her out:
** She's growing up in a clan of [[CatGirl Cat People]] where the guys have penile barbs[[note]]just like real cats[[/note]] that make sex incredibly painful. Even worse, her clan's upcoming Mating Ceremony requires all young adults to hook up and birth the next generation, meaning she's had to sleep with multiple young men hoping to become her date.
** She's currently [[HotForPreacher sleeping with the clan's matriarch]] hoping to curry her favor, and the power imbalance means the matriarch is an extremely selfish lover who takes Fiora's services and never gives anything in return.
** Given this, it's no surprise that when she masturbates in bed to blow off steam, the narration mentions it's the only time she feels like someone's actually servicing ''her'' needs to any degree.


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* MoleMonster: The savannah Fiora grew up in is home to ankhegs, insectoid predators who burrow through the terrain and hunt by bursting from the ground underneath their prey. They're so feared that when she's cornered by axebeaks, she scares them off by magically conjuring the scent of an ankheg under them to invoke Summon Bigger Fish.


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* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: Barely averted; in ''Diary of a Catgirl'', Fiora's mom walks in seconds after her daughter breaks up with her boyfriend and kicks him out of the house post-coitus. She still quickly realizes what happened. (Also they live in a nudist clan and she's well aware Fiora's sampling boys to prepare for the upcoming mating ceremony, so there likely wouldn't have been much awkwardness anyway.)


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* SignatureScent: While being attacked by axebeaks way above [[SquishyWizard her weight class]], Fiora scares the entire flock away by magically mimicking the telltale scent of an ankheg, a local burrowing predator who pops out of the ground to eat other savannah-dwellers.


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* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Fiora seems to have a bad habit of seducing authority figures. In her first story, she's sleeping with her university professor to become his academic assistant, and in her origin story she's sleeping with her clan's matriarch in the hopes of learning magic. In both cases, it blows up in her face and leads to even-worse decisions.


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* SneakingOutAtNight: After finding a suspicious crawlspace in her abjuration professor's office, Spectra breaks into the university at night to investigate further.


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* SpellBook: Fiora's origin story, "Diary of a Catgirl", is named after the childhood journal she repurposes into a spellbook after deciding to teach herself magic against the wishes of her clan.


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* ThreeWaySex: Fairly common thanks to the prevalence of sex scenes. Every protagonist has participated in at least one (even Haara's mom, who only appears in the prequel.)


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* VictorySex: Pretty common in the final chapter of any story, often between Haara/Spectra and whatever GuestStarPartyMember accompanied them on their current adventure.
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* TalkingWeapon: In one arc of ''The Naked Adventures of Kay'la, Kay'la travels back in time to search for a missing artificer, and discovers that his magic sword has spent enough time in the past to develop sentience. (It immediately allies with her since its master had gone long-deranged from loneliness.)

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* TalkingWeapon: In one arc of ''The Naked Adventures Misadventures of Kay'la, Kay’la,'' Kay'la travels back in time to search for a missing artificer, and discovers that his magic sword has spent enough time in the past to develop sentience. (It immediately allies with her since its master had gone long-deranged from loneliness.)
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* BanOnMagic: Fiora grew up in a shifter clan where magic was forbidden to anyone except the "Sister," aka the village shaman/matriarch. Most of the underhanded or immoral choices Fiora makes in her origin story involve trying to secretly learn magic without her clanmates finding out.


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* BetrayalByInaction: After getting told off by the father of the boy she dumped, Fiora stows away on his hunting trip and witnesses him get ambushed by an axebeak, but intentionally chooses not to warn him. This lets the bird get the drop on him and savagely maul him before he can react.


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* TransferableMemory: The Sisters of the shifter clans use ''encode thoughts'' to deliver encrypted messages to each other via clansmen who act as runners between villages. Since only Sisters are allowed to know magic, this ensures nobody else will eavesdrop on their private messages. (Of course, they don't know Fiora taught herself the cantrip in secret...)
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* ''10. Diary of a Catgirl.'' A [[DayInTheLimelight Day In The Limelight]]/[[OriginsEpisode Origins Episode]] for Fiora[[note]]the witch from ''The Witch's Sacrifice''[[/note]], detailing the circumstances that led to her leaving her native clan in the barrens to become a wizard.



* BathroomBreakOut: Spectra does this in the forest to slip behind a tree and escape the guards escorting her back to Stoneskeep.



* ClassicalHunter: Fiora's shifter clan has a whole band of these. She herself mentions having briefly trained to be one, but dropped out due to her passion for learning magic instead.



* DayInTheLimelight: ''Diary of a Catgirl'' focuses entirely on Fiora, with Haara only appearing in the FramingDevice of witnessing it as a dream thanks to lingering aftereffects from the amnesid they fought together.



* ExoticEquipment: Common with bestial or inhuman species. The primary time it affected the plot was in Fiora's origin story, where part of her dislike of her own people comes from male shifters having penile spines making sex a painful and unpleasant experience for her.



* HotForPreacher: While still part of her clan, Fiora engaged in a lengthy affair with her tribe's matriarch despite such a thing being sacrilege on both their parts.



* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: In ''Diary of a Catgirl'', Fiora witnesses a hunting party prepare an ambush for a pack of sleeping axebeaks, only for an unseen axebeak sentry to jump onto the hunting leader from above and tear him to ribbons before he could react.



* MandatoryMotherhood: Fiora's clan has a yearly mating ceremony where all young adults must partner up to procreate the next generation of the village. Fiora herself desperately doesn't want to participate, and part of her origin story involves trying to find a way out of it.



* NaturalizedName: Fiora grew up in a remote swiftstride clan in the barrens, changing from her clan name[[note]]“Lost Deer Among the Misty Pines”[[/note]] when she entered Mixed Lands society.

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* NationalGeographicNudity: Fiora grew up in a primitive shifter clan in the barrens, and everyone in her origin story plays this trope completely straight.
* NaturalizedName: Fiora grew up in a remote swiftstride clan in the barrens, mentions changing from her clan name[[note]]“Lost Deer Among the Misty Pines”[[/note]] when she entered Mixed Lands society.


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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At one point in ''Trapped in the Faewilds'', the core party of six gets attacked by illusory doppelgängers from their past. From Spectra’s point of view, she sees two teammates get trapped in desperate drawn-out duels for their life, two teammates quickly lose their fight and die, and then she herself gets unceremoniously ambushed and stabbed unconscious by her own. When commenters asked about Mona, the sixth and final teammate who was only seen attempting to heal a dying teammate, the author replied that she’d already fought and dispatched her phantom before the team even regrouped. (This was even more surprising considering she’s a tiny fairy who’d never shown any combat prowess before this)


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* ARealManIsAKiller: Fiora's shifter clan has a coming-of-age ritual where a young hunter must slay an axebeak and bring back a trophy in order to be considered a man.


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* TalkingWeapon: In one arc of ''The Naked Adventures of Kay'la, Kay'la travels back in time to search for a missing artificer, and discovers that his magic sword has spent enough time in the past to develop sentience. (It immediately allies with her since its master had gone long-deranged from loneliness.)


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* VowOfCelibacy: The Sister (aka matriarch) of each swiftstride clan in the barrens is forbidden from engaging in sex due to ostensibly being "above such base desires." Fiora takes advantage of this to maintain an illicit affair with her tribe's Sister to secretly learn her magic without anyone (even the Sister) knowing.

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* TheChainOfHarm: Consciously averted by Spectra in ''First Day of School'', when she's forced to choose whether she should reveal Goldgrass' secret ([[spoiler:harboring a Genasi psionicist]]) to the university. She ultimately decides, despite everything Goldgrass has done to her, that she's going to give her the benefit of the doubt and keep her secret, simply because she refuses to perpetuate the cycle of mistrust she's all-too-frequently experienced from the other side.



* CrusadingWidow: Downplayed in that Captain Goldgrass' widow never seeks out Spectra for over twenty years after Spectra's late parents killed her husband. But when Spectra enrolls in her abjuration class without knowing their prior history, her bitterness and cruelty comes out and she goes out of her way to make Spectra's time in her class a living hell.



* DangerousDeserter: In ''First Day at School'', when Spectra discovers Professor Goldgrass has been [[spoiler:harboring a rogue Genasi psionicist under her classroom]], she cites this stereotype as the reason she doesn't confide what she's doing to the university. Spectra herself has to grapple with her own fears about this once she finds out, only overcoming it by deciding she won't [[TheChainOfHarm perpetuate the cycle of distrust]] others had always levied against her.



* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Spectra accidentally turns a college party thrown by [[HonorableElephant Loxodons]] into an orgy by [[MyHoverCraftIsFullOfEels asking the wrong thing in their native language,]] which she doesn't speak.



** Similarly, multiple stories (''Lost in the Faewilds'', ''First Day at School'') involve characters who make Spectra's life hell as long-awaited retribution for ways her parents had wronged them before she was even born.



* SquaringTheLoveTriangle: Played for drama at the end of ''Lost in the Faewilds'', where Spectra discovers the backstory behind her dead parents. Unfortunately, the one revealing this to her is a jaded kidnapper her mother ''didn't'' pick, and he's decided he'll settle for her daughter...

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* SquaringTheLoveTriangle: Played for drama at the end of ''Lost in the Faewilds'', where Spectra discovers the backstory behind her dead parents. Unfortunately, the one revealing this to her is a jaded kidnapper suitor her mother ''didn't'' pick, and he's decided he'll settle for her daughter...


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* VibrantOrange: Fiora is the most mischievous, energetic, and cheerfully impulsive GuestStarPartyMember Haara ever teams up with, and this is reflected in her bright orange hair and eyes. (The black highlights suggest her [[TokenEvilTeammate questionable morality]] and ultimate untrustworthiness.)
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* CouldntFindAPen: When a vindictive professor locks Spectra in an empty room to take an exam, she doesn't even leave her a quill or ink. Undeterred, Spectra shapeshifts into an [[BirdPeople aaracokra]] to pluck her own feather, then blackens her blood and uses it as ink to complete the test.

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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3344602 Rise of the Naked Dragon]]'' is a series written by Enesseff which follows Sarah, a halfling sorcerer and fellow escaped slave from the Genasi Empire.
Currently-released stories include:
* ''1.The Golden Streak'', which details how Sarah obtained her draconic abilities and used them to stage a jailbreak.

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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3344602 Rise of the Naked Dragon]]'' is a series written by Enesseff which follows Sarah, a halfling sorcerer and fellow escaped slave from the Genasi Empire. \nCurrently-released Currently released stories include:
* ''1. The Golden Streak'', which details how Sarah obtained her draconic abilities and used them to stage a jailbreak.

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